Political Quotes

“What we ought to have the courage to do is to tell all our Homeland Security personnel, We are going to fund you through the end of this year, as we have told every other employee in the Federal Government that is protecting us and serving us on a day- to-day basis. Mr. Speaker, the majority party said to the American people in a pledge to America: We will end the practice of packaging unpopular bills with ``must-pass'' legislation. The funding of the Department of Homeland Security is a must-pass piece of legislation, legislation to circumvent the will of the American people. Instead, we will advance major legislation one issue at a time. Mr. Speaker, they are breaking that pledge today. {time} 1015 Peter King, the former Republican chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, said this: ``If a clean bill comes here, as we expect to happen in just a few hours, we have to accept and vote on it.'' He then said, in reference to this cul-de-sac strategy that the majority party is following of continuing to go into a dead end, he said this, Peter King: ``I think up to this point, we've engaged in an exercise of tactical malpractice.…”